The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-21
The state Press.


ance bill will satisfy all parties not insane or
that have not axes to grind
Noblesville Republican Ledger: The law gov
erning elections must be changed so as to better
guard the expressed will of the people
Muncie News: The sovereign people of the
State have message for the Democracy. It
will be delivered. with emphasis, in 1888
Logansport Journal: bred Scott was avenged.
"Teleeraph-it-tot the boys was rehuked. s'The
emergency is passed" will also receive its just
Judgment
Wabash Plain Dealers Now that Indiana has
to borrow $1,000 600 to meet current expenses.
the people will more fully realize the evils of
Democratic control.
Greencastle Times: The Sentinel crows az
vigorously and VIGOROUSLY over the full settle
ment OF ex-Treasurer Cooper with his successor
as il it were a matter of surprise.
Attica Ledger: Every promise made in the
Republican State platform should be fulfilled.
and every Republican member of the Legisla-
ture should vote in that direction.
Lagrange Standard: Turpie will not look SO
we'll, but he will know more, after he has tried
to palm off the Branaman brand on his cheek
as a genuine and legal Office birth-mark
Richmond Palladium: The Supreme Court
has taken good long nap over the case of the
election OF Lieutenantg governor. The judges
will waken up one of these days and give US the
result of their dreams
Richmond Telegram: If increasing the State
debt about million and half of dollars in the
| course of two or three years constitutes good
government. then the Democratic administra-
ton 10 Indiana has done admirably.
Anderson Herald: The promise made by the
Republicans in the recent campaign to procure
the enactment of some suitable temperance leg
islation is being redeemed as far as it is in the
power of the Republican members to do so.
Lawrence Mail: The Democrats have begun
to show their antaconism to high license and
majority of the people of the State demand
the enactment of law embracing both these
features
Goshen News: The Republicans in the House
have redeemed the pledges made in the plat
| form last year on the temperance question, for
which they are entitled to great credit, as plat
forms nowadays are too frequently made for use
only during the campaign.
LaPorte Herald Chronicle: The Democratic
dodge of making the tax-rate lower than it
ought to be, in order to enable the party to make
pretense of economy or good management. has
brought the State to the point where It's true
| condition can no longer be concealed
Kokomo Gazette Tribune: The Republicans,
in passing the local-option bill, have shown the
honesty and courage of their convictions and
| have demonstrated the fasity of the charges
made against the Republicans by the third party
people, who declared that the local option plank
| ia our platform was delusion and snare to
catch prohibition votes
/
| mess is to show beyond doubt that Cooper had
$685. 900 of the State funds loaned out to private
| parties contrary to law, and did not have this
money! to pay over on settlement day. The men
| who had borrowed it had to hustle around and
borrow the money of the banks in order to ena-
! BILE Cooper to get receipt in full
| Lagrange Standard: A few disconnected coal
| miners and barrel-makers can with whisper
| start Messrs. Jewett, Bailey and other Demo-
cratic leaders into frantic efforts at legislation to
/ 1afo hn. M ha nd
| in what Commodity but when the great mass
| of the people ask for legislation to check the
saloon nuisance and curse all they can suggest
| is q tax of 5000 on drug stores.
| Huntington News Express: When the Demo-
cratic Senate shall stop its bulldozing and bull
! whacking methods. and when it shall yield
| obedience to the plain requirements of the law
in the selection of trustees OF the penal and boz
1 nevolent institutions of Indiana, then, and not
| until then, will the Republican Legislature be
| justified in voting money to meet the deficiency
caused By Democratic mismanagement and *
! travagance in Indiana